Student Leadership Conference 2010

Currently: Writing this Blog Post as I ride the 33 Bus to King Edward Station

Today, I volunteered for the Student Leadership Conference (SLC 2010) as a part of the AV Team. It only seems right that I work in the Audio/Visual Component of the Conference considering I set-up more than a few DJ rigs. My job was to film the Feature Presenters so that the SLC can keep these films in their records and possibly post them online (if my videos are good enough). The Camera Tripod I was given was a little bit fidgety in the Horizontal Movement aspect of things.

My first Filming job was for Christian (forgot his last name… if someone went to that presenter and remembers his last name, just remind me) in Hebb Theatre. There were quite a few problems here, in that the mic for Hebb was no where to be found. This lead to problems for me because I had to move closer to the Presenter to pick up his voice on my camera mic. However, Christian loved to move around and interact with the students watching him, so the footage is all over the place, and I found myself twisting around into positions I didn’t even know my body was capable of producing. His presentation was excellent though, he really engaged the students and it wasn’t simply a “let me talk, you listen” kind of presentation. It was very inspiring and interesting as a listener, and I was very fortunate to get to film it.

After that, we had about a 3 and a half hour gap between that presentation and the next presentation I was supposed to film. So during this time, I assisted the AV Trouble Shooting team in minor jobs. During lunch, I also had this AMAZING Chicken Salad Sandwich. SLC has excellent food! The volunteers had time to mingle and such, get to know each other, it was good times.

My last presentation in which I had to film, was from one of our very own Bob Hancock, and his presentation was on Biological Science and his leadership in that field. Me, being a scientist in training, found this pretty interesting. He continued to explain the process in leading a lab, and producing pharmaceuticals that can be used globally in Hospitals or for other purposes. Once again, I was very fortunate to get another presenter that interested me, even if I was a volunteer at the event. Unfortunately, I had to go home because I have a massive pile of homework waiting for me and I wasn’t able to go to the Chan Center to witness the last Keynote Speaker and see the closing “Light Show”. (Yeah, you heard me… LIGHT SHOW!)

Student Leadership Conference is a very exciting and beneficial conference, volunteer or participant. It motivates and prepares you to experience the full potential of the leader that lives inside every one of us. So for those of you who didn’t participate this year, you always have next year to make up for it! I know I’ll definitely be back.